Impact News

Today on March 6th, SAWA celebrated International Womens' Day and womens' leadership in the world by sending our own inspiring leader Daphne Nederhorst to participate in a special event at The Global Dialogue Centre - an online interactive site dedicated to fostering dialogue on leadership,...
Mar 7 2009 - 9:08am
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SAWA Blog # 28: SAWA presents to the UN!
At the beginning of February, SAWA was invited to address the UN in New York to present its ideas on innovative ways to use media to solve urgent global challenges. So on Feb 11th, our founder Daphne, as well as team members Joanna and David, flew down to NY...
Feb 19 2009 - 10:00am
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On February 11th Daphne Nederhorst, the founder of Vancouver-based SAWA World, will be speaking at the UNICEF 2009 Web4Dev Conference at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. She will be presenting her innovative ideas on how to use new media and social media tools to address global...
Feb 9 2009 - 3:00pm
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SAWA BLOG #27 Class Afloat Trip to Senegal and Cape Verde part 2: The Leaders
Things are not always what they seem. Sometimes our preconceived notions about a place are all wrong. That's what Eric experienced when he landed in Senegal. At first apprehensive because of the negative images of Africa...
Feb 5 2009 - 1:58pm
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SAWA is making headways on the frontier for a new empowering social media and people are taking notice. Class Afloat - a Canadian program offering high school and university students an education that takes them all over the world via ship - approached SAWA in October of 2008 to help them develop a...
Jan 21 2009 - 12:18pm
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On this Thursday November 27th SAWA will be hosting an event to show potential donors how they can make a difference through SAWA. The purpose of the event is to give an overview of SAWA’s work and impact – 90,458 lives changes, 10,000 hectares of forest and 50 km of coral reef...
Nov 26 2008 - 1:31pm
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We live in a world of numbers and statistics, often overwhelmed into hopelessness by the number of people in dire need all over the world. But behind those numbers are real people with real lives who, rather than falling victim to hopelessness, persevere with ingenuity and live to inspire the rest...
Nov 14 2008 - 9:30am
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